{"id":36453,"date":"2025-03-21T16:40:21","date_gmt":"2025-03-21T20:40:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.eng.ufl.edu\/newengineer\/?p=36453"},"modified":"2025-06-11T12:25:20","modified_gmt":"2025-06-11T17:25:20","slug":"miami-herald-uf-professor-researching-better-monitoring-practices-for-drones","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.eng.ufl.edu\/news\/in-the-headlines\/miami-herald-uf-professor-researching-better-monitoring-practices-for-drones\/","title":{"rendered":"Miami Herald: UF professor researching better monitoring practices for drones"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Drones seem to be everywhere these days \u2014 flying over Mexico to hunt for fentanyl labs, making Amazon deliveries, tracking pythons in the Florida Everglades and delivering donor blood to rural Rwanda. Increasingly, drones are being used in warfare as well, such as the consumer drones that Ukrainians have modified to destroy Russian armor.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>From toys to weapons of war, drones serve an incredible range of functions. However, drones have also collided with firefighting planes during the Los Angeles wildfires, and they have raised alarms when used in restricted airspace around airports and military bases.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>If misused, drones \u2014 especially those employing Artificial Intelligence to make their own decisions \u2014 can pose a dangerous threat to national security and the public.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>That\u2019s why researchers at the University of Florida are conducting work at an autonomous drone center for the Air Force and a testing ground called the Autonomy Park for the U.S. Department of Defense.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.miamiherald.com\/opinion\/op-ed\/article302458809.html\">Read full story at miamiherald.com<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Researchers at the University of Florida are conducting work at an autonomous drone center for the Air Force and a testing ground called the Autonomy Park for the U.S. Department of Defense.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2592,"featured_media":36455,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"single-templates\/single-sidebar-none.php","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"inline_featured_image":false,"featured_post":"","footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[73,49,57],"tags":[395],"class_list":["post-36453","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-ai-university","category-in-the-headlines","category-stories","tag-warren-dixon"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.eng.ufl.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36453","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.eng.ufl.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.eng.ufl.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eng.ufl.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2592"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eng.ufl.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=36453"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.eng.ufl.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36453\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":37281,"href":"https:\/\/www.eng.ufl.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36453\/revisions\/37281"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eng.ufl.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/36455"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.eng.ufl.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=36453"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eng.ufl.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=36453"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eng.ufl.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=36453"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}